Om3
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OM3 is a finite-difference, z-coordinate ocean model. OM3 was developed from scratch in C as a parallel program, contains a fully explicit, double time-split solver for the barotropic component, is on an A-grid, and has a free surface.
- Resolution: 128 latitudes x 128 longitudes on a regular polar grid. 24 levels with first 12 in upper 1000 meters.
- base timestep: 6 hours for advection/diffusion
- Richardson-number based vertical mixing.
This page contains links to in-progress material for the "multi-source" version of Om3.
Information here does not apply to the single-source version known as om3coupled.c